Pennsylvania GOP to ignore state Scotus Order

it is the constitutional duty and responsibility of the legislature to define district boundaries. it is not within the constitutional purview of the courts to order changes.

elections have consequences. deal with it.

:cheers:
 
evince said:
Senate's top GOP leader won't obey Pa. Supreme Court order in gerrymandering case

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court decided the state's congressional map illegally favors Republicans and must be redrawn. Here's the background on the case.

In a letter to the justices, a lawyer for Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati, R-Jefferson, said Wednesday he will not comply with a court directive to turn over voter records and mapmaking material.
The letter states the court’s Jan. 22 ruling striking down the state’s 2011 congressional map was a judicial overstep. The ruling, the letter said, did not include judicial guidance on how lawmakers can rectify the map and the court has yet to provide it, indicating the justices plan to make their own map for the May 15 primary.
If that’s the case, the lawyer warned, the justices won’t get help from Scarnati, who will not relinquish “statewide municipal and precinct map data.”
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PA repubs are desperate to hang onto this terrible map despite the demographics.

“There are a million more Democrats in this commonwealth — I want to let that sink in — a million more Democrats in this commonwealth, but there’s a Republican Statehouse, there’s a Republican state Senate, and there are only five Democrats in the Congress, as opposed to 13 Republicans,” Wecht said in a candidate forum in 2015, according to the filing. “Think about it. Do we need a new Supreme Court? I think you know the answer.”

Political and legal fights have intensified over Pennsylvania's gerrymandered congressional map after Senate Republicans vowed to ignore a court order issued by the Democrat-majority state Supreme Court."
 
christiefan915 said:
PA repubs are desperate to hang onto this terrible map despite the demographics.

“There are a million more Democrats in this commonwealth — I want to let that sink in — a million more Democrats in this commonwealth, but there’s a Republican Statehouse, there’s a Republican state Senate, and there are only five Democrats in the Congress, as opposed to 13 Republicans,” Wecht said in a candidate forum in 2015, according to the filing. “Think about it. Do we need a new Supreme Court? I think you know the answer.”

Political and legal fights have intensified over Pennsylvania's gerrymandered congressional map after Senate Republicans vowed to ignore a court order issued by the Democrat-majority state Supreme Court."
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Holy smoke.

Republicans are now routinely losing the popular vote in presidential elections, sparsely populated conservative states are given disproportionate power in the Senate, and the GOP has engaged in drastic gerrymandering to grip onto power on the House of Reps, and legislatures across the country.

It is crystal clear the Republicans govern without the consent of the people - and they know this. Which is why they and their elderly, geriatric white base are relentlessly gaming the system to cling to power...like grim death!
 
these people just cant be Americans


no American would approve of these crimes against Democracy
 
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